The Wine That Made Silver Oak Famous
FREE Meyer Family Tasting
Saturday April 6th, 2013
2pm-4pm
Matt Meyer will be on hand at Southpark to sign bottles!
Featuring:
2003 Meyer Family "Bonny's Vineyard" Cabernet
2010 Meyer Family "Spitfire" Cabernet
2009 Meyer Family "Highground" Syrah
2009 Meyer Family Syrah
2012 Meyer Family Rose
NV Meyer Family Port
Buy any bottle of Meyer Family wines and be entered to win a Magnum of 2005 Bonny's Vineyard Cabernet!
What's the big complaint about Robert
Parker? Lots of people are probably motivated by little more than
jealousy, but many believe that there is something inherently wrong with
one man having so much power in the marketplace. Query many of those
folks a bit more and you find that they wouldn't mind owning that sort
of power; they just don't like what Parker does with his power. So they
aren't being honest: it's not that one man shouldn't have power, it's
that THIS man shouldn't have that much power.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Parker's
affection for big, unctuous red wines is legendary and despite the fact
that he tastes tens of thousands of wines each year, he knows exactly
what he's looking for and if he likes something, it's undeniably cut
from that loud and powerful cloth.
Not everybody wants wines of such
intensity; but Parker's success is proof that plenty do and if they are
looking for one of the famous names among these powerhouses, they could
do worse than purchase Meyer Family Bonny's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.
The eponymous Meyer family includes Bonny Meyer, for whom the Bonny's Vineyard is named. Bonny's
Vineyard was, as you probably know, the most sought-after wine in the
Silver Oak stable. Bonny's late husband Justin Meyer had named the
vineyard for her, and it was the jewel in the crown that Justin
Meyer crafted at Silver Oak. In 1991, he stopped making a single
vineyard wine, insisting that silver Oak's worldwide popularity made it
too troublesome to continue to make a 400 case production wine, with
every customer assuming that they could buy access to that limited
production wine.
Justin's son Matt, who will be joining us
Saturday, finally talked the family into returning to a Bonny's
Vineyard Cabernet in 2001; Justin Meyer passed away suddenly in 2003 and
never saw the release of the wine. The 2003 is the inaugural release of
that wine, and along with that we will be sampling their Spitfire
Cabernet, Highground Syrah, Syrah, Rose and Port. So if you remember the
Silver Oak Bonny's of old, swing by on Saturday to go back in time. If
you never tasted those wines, but are interested in the style of wines
that built Silver Oak into the powerhouse it is today, we hope to see
you too!
Happy Tasting and we'll see you on Saturday,
Doug Frost, MS MW
Master Sommelier & Master of Wine
